Chapter 25 The fourth quarter prince wandering

Yelubei is the eldest brother of Liao Emperor Yelu Deguang. Why did Li Congke invite him to set himself on fire?Besides, hasn't Yelubei stayed in his fief Dongdan country all the time?Why did he appear in the Later Tang Dynasty at this time?This matter has to start with Yelu Deguang's succession to the throne... As mentioned earlier, Yelu Deguang succeeded to the throne and became the second emperor of the Liao Kingdom.After he became emperor, his elder brother Yelubei still stayed in Shangjing, so there was inevitably a grudge among the brothers.In fact, the Khitan people at this time were really simple. If it was in the Central Plains Dynasty, the eldest brother must have accompanied the first emperor. Now the second child has not killed the eldest brother, but he has always refused to let the eldest brother be sealed.The boss resigned several times, saying that you have become the emperor, and I will not compete with you. My fief is in Dongdan, can you put me back and let me serve the Great Khitan?It took a long time for Emperor Taizong to let his brother go, but after his brother returned to the country, Yelu Deguang sent people to visit several times. The name was visit, but it was actually surveillance. Not only surveillance, he also sent people from Dongdan Kingdom A large number of households moved to Khitan territory, and the territory of Dongdan State was reduced. He even sent three hundred guards of his brother.Yelubei was very depressed. In order to show his loyalty, he built a temple in the capital of Dongdan Kingdom, wrote inscriptions, praised the saints of today, and built a library.The ruins of this library building still exist today. On the main peak of Yiwulu Mountain, which is more than 800 meters high, there are as many as ten thousand volumes of books.At that time, there was civil strife in the Central Plains, and many ancient books were preserved because of Yelubei’s search. For example, he collected many ancient medical books in the Central Plains, and these medical books were lost in the Central Plains.Yelubei read, painted, recited poems and composed Fu every day, and sang with Han literati.However, his younger brother Yelu Deguang still couldn't forget it, and kept sending special agents to monitor him.Yelvbei felt that if this went on like this, sooner or later he would die at the hands of his younger brother.what to do?Thirty-six strategies are the best, let's go to the Central Plains.

At that time, the dynasty of the Central Plains was the Later Tang Dynasty, and the reigning emperor was Li Siyuan, Emperor Mingzong of the Later Tang Dynasty, who was Shi Jingtang's father-in-law.Li Siyuan also knew about the domestic turmoil in Khitan, so he sent people across the sea several times with books to recruit Yelubei.Yelubei thought again and again, "I used the world to let the Lord go, but now I am suspicious; it is better to adapt to other countries and use the name of Taibo Wu" ("The History of Liao Dynasty Yelubei Biography").I surrendered my throne to the current lord, but I didn't expect that the lord still doubted me, so I might as well just abandon the country and go away to fulfill the lord.So he took some entourage, his concubine Gao and his own collection of ten thousand volumes, crossed Bohai Bay and entered the territory of Later Tang Dynasty.His original wife Xiao and his son Yeluruan did not go with him, but stayed in Khitan.When he left his homeland, Yelubei erected a wooden sign by the sea, and wrote four lines of poems on the wooden sign. This is the earliest Khitan Chinese poem recorded in historical records: "The small mountain crushes the big mountain, and the big mountain is powerless. I am ashamed to see the people in my hometown, From then on, I voted abroad." ("The History of Liao Dynasty Yelv Bei Biography") This poem today seems to be purely on the level of doggerel, why doesn't it rhyme?Don't forget that this was written by the Khitan people, the people of the grasslands, the warriors relying on the mausoleum, bending the bow and shooting the eagles, if it can be written like this, at least the words are aligned, it is already very good.Of course, it may also be because he left too hastily, and there was no time to polish it, and he didn't even care about the flatness and rhyme.Yelubei left such a poem and traveled south across the sea to Luoyang, the capital of the later Tang Dynasty.Li Siyuan was very happy and received Yelubei with the emperor's etiquette, because Yelubei was supposed to be the emperor in Liao Dynasty, but he accidentally failed to become emperor, so he received him with the emperor's ceremony.The surname was given to Li, and the Han name was Li Zanhua. He was granted the title of Jiedushi of the Huaihua Army, and the material treatment was also very generous.In this way, Yelubei lived in the Central Plains.Although he lived in the Central Plains, whenever an envoy from Khitan came, he would summon the envoy to ask how his mother was and how his younger brother was. His mother was rude because she didn't want to see him, and she took good care of the people in her hometown.

Yelubei lived a few years of comfortable life in the Later Tang Dynasty. Li Siyuan died, and his own son succeeded to the throne. His adopted son Li Congke rebelled and overthrew Li Siyuan's own son.This wandering crown prince was invited by the late emperor, so naturally he has no deep relationship with Li Congke. Li Congke's attitude towards the troubled prince is obviously not as good as that of his adoptive father.Moreover, Li Congke did not come to the throne rightly, so Yelubei once sent someone to write a book to Taizong Yelu Deguang, asking him to lead troops south to eliminate Li Congke.Although his mother didn't want to see him, although his throne was robbed, and although he was treated well in the Later Tang Dynasty, Yelubei was still in Cao Ying and his heart was in Han, and he always missed his homeland.But before Liao Taizong raised his troops, Shi Jingtang rebelled, worshiped Liao Taizong as his foster father, and the Khitan army went south.As soon as the Khitan army arrived, Hou Tang was about to perish. Li Congke decided to set himself on fire to die for his country, but he invited Yelubei to set himself on fire with him.You have lived in our country for so many years, and I have such a good relationship with you. I can't bear to go alone, so I invite you to die together.